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Biblioscope
An Archival Guide & Bibliography
Theses and Dissertations
| Caffrey, Patrick Joseph. "The Forests of Northeast China, 16001953: Environment, Politics, and Society." Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 2002. 468 pp. On the evolution of forest management policy in Manchuria, China. Topics covered include: afforestation, deforestation, forest conservation, forest politics, and sustainability.Callahan, Richard Joseph, Jr. "Working with Religion: Industrialization and Resistance in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, 19101932." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002. 262 pp. Examines the role of religion in shaping the attitudes of coal miners and their families toward work and social activities during an era of increasing industrialization.Dehler, Gregory John. "An American Crusader: William Temple Hornaday and Wildlife Protection in America, 18401940." Ph.D. dissertation, Lehigh University, 2001. 423 pp. Detailed biography of American wildlife conservationist and director of the New York Zoological Park, William Temple Hornaday (18541937). The author argues that Hornaday's lobbying efforts to secure state and federal laws aimed at the protection of wildlife, shaped the wildlife conservation movement following the Second World War.Dennis, Samuel Frederick, Jr. "Seeing the Lowcountry Landscape: 'Race,' Gender, and Nature in Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia, 17502000." Ph.D. dissertation (Geography), Pennsylvania State University, 2000. xii + 289 pp. Argues that when the lumber industry replaced the rice planter economy of South Carolina and Georgia in the early twentieth century, lumbermen adopted planters' paternalistic ideas about race, gender, and ritual practices, such as hunting, traditionally associated with the lowcountry landscape during the era of slavery.Honker, Andrew M. "A River Sometimes Runs Through It: A History of Salt River Flooding and Phoenix." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2002. 294 pp. Overview of the flooding of Phoenix, Arizona, by the Salt River, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. . . |
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